Scale Bridge

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Inspiration

Scaling Bitcoin through sidechains has been around since 2014 from Blockstream and I'm glad it's finally becoming a reality.

What it does

Helps onboard users to the Anduro Sidechain. Create a voucher and give it to someone, they can later download a compatible wallet and claim the bitcoin equivalent funds.

How we built it

Rust, Coordinate Node, Actix-web server,

Challenges we ran into

RPC calls with coordinate node and docker network were tricky. Loading the wallet on boot of the coordinate node was also tricky. Ran into many hours of debugging REST calls from Website to webserver to coordinate node. Coordinate Blockchain was down during hacking so this was tough. First started the hackathon the coordinate node didn't have a Dockerfile.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Help debug Anduro and got a project using it by the end of the hackathon! Although the project is a simple concept I believe it is powerful idea. Later on assets and other contracts will be interesting, but the first killer usecase imo is scaling transactions.

What we learned

A lot of docker networking, bitcoin RPC, coordinate RPC, and some actixweb server concepts.

What's next for Scale Bridge

Allowing users to create their own assets on Anduro and potentially encumber with interesting smart contracts.

Built With

• anduro
• bitcoin
• blockchain
• database
• rust